Chords: A saucerful of secrets
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A saucerful of secrets (celestial voices)
Bm A E F# D G E A F#
Bm G F# Em D F#
Bm A E F# D G E A F#
Bm G F# E D F#
Bm A E F# D G E A F#
Bm G F# Em D F#
B A E F# D G E A F#
Bm G F# Em D F#
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Remember a day
E D6 A E
Remember a day before today, a day when you were young
D6 A Em F#m/E G/E A/E Em F#m/E
Free to play along with time; evening never comes__________________
G/E A/E E F#o/E E F#o/E E
E D6 A E
Sing a song that can't be sung without the morning's kiss
D6 A Em F#m/E G/E A/E Em F#m/E
Queen you shall be if you wish. Look for your king___________________
G/E A/E
A G D Em
Why can't we play today?
A G D Em F#m/E G/E A/E E(no 3rd)
Why can't we stay that way?
E D6 A E
Climb your favourite apple tree; try to catch the sun
D6 A Em F#m/E G/E A/E Em
Hide from your little brother's gun. Dream yourself away____________________
F#m/E G/E A/E
A G D Em
Why can't we reach the sun?
A G D Em F#m/E G/E A/E
Why can't we blow the years away?
E(no 3rd)
Blow away
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See-saw
Cmaj7
Marigolds are very much in love
Am7
But he doesn't mind
F B
Picking up sister he makes his way to the see-saw land
E E7 A
All the way up she smiles
G F Em
She goes up as he goes down, down
Bb A D
Cmaj7
Sits on a stick in the river
Am7
Laughter in his sleep
F
Sister's throwing stones
G B B7
Hoping for a hit
E
He doesn't know
A
So then
G F Em Ebmaj7
She goes up while he goes down, down
Bb A D
Eb Cmaj7
Another time, another day
F A
A brother's way to leave
E D
Another time, another day
Cmaj7 Am7
She'll be selling plastic flowers on a Sunday afternoon
F
Picking up weeds
B
She hasn't got the time to care
E E7 A
All can see he's not there
G F
She grows up for another man,
Em
And he's down
Bb A D
Eb Cmaj7
Another time, another day
F A
A brother's way to leave
E D
Another time, another day
Eb Cmaj7
Another time, another day
F A
A brother's way to leave
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Set the controls for the heart of the sun
Am G Am G Am
Little by little the night turns around,
G Am G Am
Counting the leaves which tremble at dawn
Dm C Dm C Dm
Lotus's lean on each other in yearning,
Am G Am
Over the hills a swallow is resting
G Am F Am F Am
G Am G Am G Am G Am
Set the controls for the heart of the sun
Am G Am G Am
Over the mountains watching the watcher,
G Am G Am
Breaking the darkness waking the grapevine
Dm C Dm C Dm
Knowledge of love is knowledge of shadow,
Am G Am
Love is the shadow that ripens the wine
G Am F Am F Am
G Am G Am G Am
Set the controls for the heart of the sun,
Am
The heart of the sun, The heart of the sun...
Am G Am G Am
Witness the man who waves at the wall,
G Am G Am
Making the shape of his questions to heaven
Dm C Dm C Dm
Whether the sun will fall in the evening,
Am G Am
Will he remember the lesson of giving?
G Am F Am F Am
G Am G Am
Set the controls for the heart of the sun,
Am
The heart of the sun, The heart of the sun...
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Corporal Clegg
A C D A
Corporal Clegg had a wooden leg
N.C. E7+9
He won it in the war in nineteen forty-four
A C D A
Corporal Clegg had a medal, too,
N.C. E7+9
In orange, red and blue. He found it in the zoo
Bm F#
Dear, oh dear, oh, are they really sad for me?
Bm F# D
Dear, oh, dear, oh, will they really laugh at me?
D G
Missus Clegg, you must be proud of him
D G
Missus Clegg, another drop of gin?
A Ab G D A7 D G D A7 D
A C D A
Corporal Clegg, umbrella in the rain
N.C. E7+9
He's never been the same. No one is to blame
A C D A
Corporal Clegg, received his medal in a dream
N.C. E7+9
From Her Majesty, the Queen. His boots were very clean
D G
Missus Clegg, you must be proud of him.
D D
Missus Clegg, another drop of gin?
A Ab G
D A7
Corporal Clegg
D
Corporal Clegg
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Jugband Blues
C Am
It's awfully considerate of you to think of me here
C Am C
And I'm almost obliged to you for making it clear that I'm not here
Am C
And I never knew the moon could be so big
Am C
And I never knew the moon could be so blue
Am C
And I'm grateful that you threw away my old shoes
F G A
And brought me here instead dressed in red
Bm F#m Bm F#m
And I'm wondering who could be writing this song
G D A D
I don't care if the sun don't shine
G D A D
And I don't care if nothing is mine
Fm A
And I don't care if I'm nervous with you
Fm A
I'll do my loving in the Winter
Jugband and Mason's kazoo: G D A D (X4)
G D
La, La, La, La La, La, La, La
A D ----> (x4)
La, La, La, La La, La, La, La
N.C.
La, La, La, La... (Glissando from D to Fdim: 1 2 1 x x x)
Jugband: E (strange noises, trumpet, basso tuba, Syd)
Coda: Am C
Am Am
And the sea isn't green
C Am
And I love the queen
C Am
And what exactly is a dream?
C A
And what exactly is a joke?
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Let there be more light
Far, far, far, far away, way
People heard him say, say
"I will find a way, way
There will come a day, day
Something will be done"
Cm Fm
Then at last the mighty ship descending on a point of flame
Cm Dm A Ab
Made contact with the human race at Mildenhall
w/riff 1
Now, now, now is the time, time
Time to be, be, be aware
Cm Fm
Carter's father saw it there and knew the Rhull revealed to him
Cm Dm A Ab
The living soul of Hereward the Wake
w/riff 1
Oh my, something in my eye, eye
Something in the sky, sky
Waiting there for me
Cm
The outer lock rolled slowly back
Fm
The servicemen were heard to sigh
Cm Dm A Ab
For there revealed in flowing robes was Lucy in the sky
w/riff 1
Oh, oh, did you ever?
No, no, never will they
I'll say!
Cm
Summoning his cosmic powers
Fm
And glowing slightly from his toes
Cm Dm A Ab
His psychic emanations flowed
Cm Fm Dm A Ab
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